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How you could be leaking your secrets onto GitHub

How you could be leaking your secrets onto GitHub

August 3, 2016

Every developer worth his or her salt knows better than to hard code API tokens, encryption keys, and user credentials. But a quick search on public GitHub repositories shows this happens all too often.

Latest case in point: Researchers from website security firm Detectify found more than 1,500 Slack tokens on GitHub. The developers had shared their code thinking others may be able to reuse a bot for their Slack teams.

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